Disturbing footage has emerged of Desmond Hague, the CEO of Centerplate (a company that provides catering for more than 300 major venues in North America ) brutally abusing a dog. Centerplate is disciplining Hague, but many feel that it's not enough. »8/27/14 9:30pm 8/27/14 9:30pm

In another edition of PETA Is The Worst, parents in Woodland Hills, California allege that the organization handed out pamphlets to their children at school containing graphic pictures of mutilated cows. The children were traumatized by these pamphlets on the same day that a baby cow was on campus as part of a lesson… »2/05/14 5:30pm 2/05/14 5:30pm

Just in time for the holidays, some British clothing stores are pulling angora products from the shelves amid claims that millions of rabbits are being mistreated in China because it's not enough for humans to demonstrate their superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom by shaving them naked and using their fur… »12/15/13 1:30pm 12/15/13 1:30pm

It’s probably best not to take PETA’s outrage too, too seriously (I mean, it’s not like they’re going to throw paint all over your decadent fur coat or anything), but a spokeswoman for the animal rights organization has criticized Katy Perry for exploiting exotic animals in her new video for the single “Roar.” »9/15/13 4:30pm 9/15/13 4:30pm

Remember the brusque but ultimately golden-hearted transient woman in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York who helped Kevin defeat his adult foes with her team of loyal pigeons? Yeah, well, this story about a vigilante pigeon strangler stalking the streets of Cambridge, England is nothing like that at all. It’s actually a… »9/06/13 9:30am 9/06/13 9:30am

There have been some truly egregious political fuck-ups in the past, and while Tennessee Republican State Rep. Andy Holt’s email exchange with the Humane Society’s public policy coordinator in which he compares the Humane Society investigations to the human trafficking of 17-year-old women and makes use of the phrase… »4/30/13 1:00pm 4/30/13 1:00pm

And with this, I am so ready for 2012 to be over and to get to 2013, a time and place where puppies haven't yet been abandoned in dumpsters. I know, I know, as soon as 2013 is here, I will be like "WTF I THOUGHT I SAID NO DUMPSTER PUPPIES," and 2013 will be all "Oh, my bad." »12/30/12 10:45pm 12/30/12 10:45pm

Shockingly, a "turkey semen collection facility" is not the kind of place you want to be — especially if you're a turkey. A North Carolina semen-farm owned by Butterball was raided today after hidden-camera video taken by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals showed workers kicking, stomping, and dragging the… »12/29/11 7:00pm 12/29/11 7:00pm

Lynn Jones, a baggage handler at Reno-Tahoe International Airport, was fired from her job after she refused to load a severely abused dog onto a plane. Jones says the hunting dog was covered with sores and TSA agents couldn't get it to stand up to be X-rayed. "Everyone who saw it, the TSA people, the Airport Police… »12/06/11 9:50am 12/06/11 9:50am

In this (fucked-up, not-suitable-for-breakfast-viewing) video, a girl tosses a bunch of puppies in a river. Luckily, the pups are being avenged by the most moral people on the Internet: 4chan users. »8/31/10 11:00am 8/31/10 11:00am

• Roxana Saberi, the American journalist being held on charges of espionage in Iran, was hospitalized. Her ill health is the result of a hunger fast, which she intensified by refusing to drink water. • »5/04/09 5:20pm 5/04/09 5:20pm

• The jurors deliberating on the case against Joe "Cat Killer" Petcka are still
deadlocked »9/24/08 5:20pm 9/24/08 5:20pm after 1-1/2 days of deliberation. • A about an English surgery assistant's "fitness to practice" reveals that he cursed at a woman in labor and said "Fucking hell, why can't women in this hospital give birth naturally?" •…

MowMar LLP, the owners of the pig farm in Greene County, Iowa that
was infiltrated by PETA »9/19/08 12:20pm 9/19/08 12:20pm and accused of horrific abuses against the animals, has of its workers and says it plans on taking steps to avoid further abuses. MowMar officials reportedly met with PETA officials on Thursday to talk about correcting abuses…